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Italian Waste Found at Bulgarian Port Is Not Hazardous or Toxic - Prosecutors
January 20 (BTA) - Italian waste which was found to sit unlawfully at the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Bourgas, is not hazardous or toxic, the prosecution service said at a special news briefing Monday. The prosecution opened a probe after 20 containers with waste from Ita...
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Prime Minister Borissov Meets with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva
January 19 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov met with the Managing Director and Executive Board Chairman of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva. The main emphasis in their conversation at the Council of Ministers was the cooperation between Bul...
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Pernik to Be Supplied with Water from Belmeken Dam
January 18 (BTA) - In a bid to ease drinking water rationing in Pernik, water will be supplied to the southwestern city from the Belmeken Dam in Mt Rila using the infrastructure of Sofia's water utility, Sofiyska Voda. This emerged at an extraordinary meeting here on Satu...
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Bulgarian Military Overseas Missions, Operations in 2019 Cost Lv 20.9 Mln - Defence Minister
January 17 (BTA) - The financial resources spent on the participation of Bulgarian military in overseas missions and operations in 2019 amounted to 20,932,400 leva rather than to a billion, Bulgarian Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov said, addressing Parliament durin...
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Bulgarian Arms Export Control Commission Issued 887 Permits Worth EUR 1.44 Bln in 2018
January 17 (BTA) - The Interministerial Commission for Export Control and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction with the Minister of Economy issued 887 export licenses for defence-related products (DRPs) in 2018, which were worth 1, 44 billion euro. Most of the...
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President Holds Talks on Possible Constitutional Changes with Bar Association, Says Bulgarians Can Decide on That
January 16 (BTA) - President Rumen Radev met here Thursday with representatives of the Supreme Bar Association to discuss with them the need for constitutional changes concerning the place of the judiciary. At the opening of the meeting, the President said it is important...
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Deputy Prime Minister Nikolova: Bulgaria-China Trade Cooperation Is Steadily Increasing
January 16 (BTA) - Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Demographic Policy Mariana Nikolova addressed the participants at the China-Bulgaria Business Forum in Beijing, the Council of Ministers press centre said on Thursday. The forum was organized with the support of th...
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State-owned Mega-company to Be Established in Water Sector
January 16 (BTA) - The state will set up a single-shareholder joint-stock holding company called Bulgarski ViK Holding EAD Sofia (Bulgarian Water and Sewerage Holding SS JSC Sofia), Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told journalists at the start of the Council of Ministers meeting on...
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PM Borissov Meets with Egypt's President el-Sisi
January 15 (BTA) - Meeting with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said, as quoted by the Government Information Service: "The real breakthrough achieved in the political contacts between Bulgaria and Egypt in the last two yea...
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Parliament Votes New Environment Minister into Office
January 15 (BTA) - With 111 votes in favour and 96 votes against, the National Assembly Wednesday approved the nomination of Emil Dimitrov MP of United Patriots as Minister of Environment and Water. He later swore in before Parliament. The vote also removed from office ...
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Inflation for December 2019 Is 0.7%
January 15 (BTA) - Inflation for December 2019 versus November is 0.7 per cent, the National Statistical Institute said on Wednesday. The annual inflation for December 2019 compared to December 2018 is 3.8 per cent. The average annual inflation for the period January - D...
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New 2020 Session of 44th National Assembly Beginswith Declarations from Parliamentary Groups
Sofia, January 15 (BTA) - The new session of the 44th National Assembly for 2020 began Wednesday, marked by the anthems of Bulgaria and Europe. Parliamentary groups issued their traditional declarations early in the session. GERB The coming year will not be an election...
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Foreign Minister Zaharieva: EU Enlargement Policy Is in Interest of Both Candidate and Member States
January 14 (BTA) - The policy of EU enlargement is in the common interest of both the countries aspiring for accession and those that are already members of the Union, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said here Tuesday. She was speaking at a discussion on th...
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Direct Military Aggression Against Bulgaria's Sovereignty Currently Not Probable - Analyst
January 14 (BTA) - Direct military aggression against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bulgaria as a member of NATO and the EU is not probable at present, said Simeon Nikolov, member of the Governing Board of the Bulgarian Diplomatic Society (BDS). He was spea...
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Emil Dimitrov Nominated as New Environment Minister
January 14 (BTA) - Emil Dimitrov was nominated as the new Environment and Water Minister in place of Neno Dimov at Tuesday's meeting of the ruling GERB-United Patriots coalition. Last week Dimov was arrested and charged with wilful mismanagement which led to a severe water crisis...
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Sofia Commodity Exchange Reports 29 Per Cent Turnover Increase in 2019 to Lv 445.7 Mln
January 13 (BTA) - The Sofia Commodity Exchange (SCE) turnover topped 445.7 million leva in 2019, 29 per cent up from 2018, SCE CEO Vassil Simov told a BTA-hosted news conference on Monday. The 1,104 contracts traded on the Exchange last year were 11 per cent more than...
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Bulgaria's Exports to EU Grew 3.4 Per Cent in January-October 2019, Y/Y
January 13 (BTA) - Bulgarian exports to the EU grew by 3.4 per cent in the January-October 2019 period in comparison with the same period of 2018 and amounted to 32,681.1 million leva, according to preliminary data released by the National Statistical Institute on Monday. Bul...
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National Revenue Agency Reports Nearly Lv 24 Bln in Revenues for 2019
January 12 (BTA) - The National Revenue Agency (NRA) reported 23.870 billion leva in revenues from taxes and social and health insurance contributions for 2019. This is a record-high 2.8 billion leva more than in 2018 and about 628 million leva more than was planned for the year....
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Outgoing Environment Minister Placed in Indefinite Remand
109 POLITICS - EX-MINISTER - COURT - CUSTODY January 11 (BTA) - The Specialized Criminal Court Saturday placed Environment and Water Minister Neno Dimov in indefinite remand. The ruling is appealable. The court said that in his capacity as environment and water minister, Di...
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Bulgaria's Foreign Minister: ISIS Will Revive Very Quickly If EU, NATO Pull Out of Iraq
January 11 (BTA correspondent Nikolay Jeliazkov) - Talking to Bulgarian journalists in Brussels, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said Sofia is urging for tension in the Middle East to deescalate and for preserving the anti-Isis coalition a...
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